Sidwell LS Principal

[Anonymous]

OP here. For the record, we are among the less connected ones. And our interest is not in hanging around the school lobby, expecting the principal/faculty/staff to fawn over us. Nearly the opposite is true. Our experience has neverthless been at least mildly disconcerting. If the Principal is interested in seeing the less connected feel more comfortable, he doesn;t seem to be acting on this thought -- at least in our experience and that of a few other less connected families we know and have discussed this with.

All of this is not to take away from the school or his record as an educator. All highly appreciated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Strange. I have seem numerous comments about various individual admissions directors and nobody seemed to object that it was about a specific person. Why object now?

Exactly. The Sidwell parents sure have thin skins.

One does not have to be a Sidwell parent to find this type of thread targeting one individual (whether principal, admissions director, or teacher) objectionable. I'm not, and I do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. For the record, we are among the less connected ones. And our interest is not in hanging around the school lobby, expecting the principal/faculty/staff to fawn over us. Nearly the opposite is true. Our experience has neverthless been at least mildly disconcerting. If the Principal is interested in seeing the less connected feel more comfortable, he doesn;t seem to be acting on this thought -- at least in our experience and that of a few other less connected families we know and have discussed this with.

All of this is not to take away from the school or his record as an educator. All highly appreciated.

You "highly" appreciate him so much that you call him "odd" and "unprofessional" in your original post? ummm..... okay. When you don't appreciate someone, what tack do you take?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. For the record, we are among the less connected ones. And our interest is not in hanging around the school lobby, expecting the principal/faculty/staff to fawn over us. Nearly the opposite is true. Our experience has neverthless been at least mildly disconcerting. If the Principal is interested in seeing the less connected feel more comfortable, he doesn;t seem to be acting on this thought -- at least in our experience and that of a few other less connected families we know and have discussed this with.

All of this is not to take away from the school or his record as an educator. All highly appreciated.

You "highly" appreciate him so much that you call him "odd" and "unprofessional" in your original post? ummm..... okay. When you don't appreciate someone, what tack do you take?

Appreciate his record an an educator. Don't appreciate his interpersonal skills. Would you like me to keep repeating this? Is it all black or white?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:US is amazing and intense, but i also think lower school is pretty great. Part of the reason is that the head is not afraid to fire teachers who don't work out. That is not true at all at the US or the MS. And I will add, that I have already stated on this thread that I think the LS head is really obnoxious. But I do respect him as an educator. For all his faults, he doesn't F&*k around when it comes to running that school.

We have admittedly not been at Sidwell's LS for that long, but I don't recall teachers ever having been fired.

[Anonymous]

There has been at least one in the past two years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. For the record, we are among the less connected ones. And our interest is not in hanging around the school lobby, expecting the principal/faculty/staff to fawn over us. Nearly the opposite is true. Our experience has neverthless been at least mildly disconcerting. If the Principal is interested in seeing the less connected feel more comfortable, he doesn;t seem to be acting on this thought -- at least in our experience and that of a few other less connected families we know and have discussed this with.

All of this is not to take away from the school or his record as an educator. All highly appreciated.

You "highly" appreciate him so much that you call him "odd" and "unprofessional" in your original post? ummm..... okay. When you don't appreciate someone, what tack do you take?

Appreciate his record an an educator. Don't appreciate his interpersonal skills. Would you like me to keep repeating this? Is it all black or white?

You sound like a dud--entitled, insecure, and self-righteous. If he did blow you off and it wasn't just your eternal middle school mindset, I'm going to give him credit for sniffing out a back-stabbing social climber and keeping his distance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You sound like a dud--entitled, insecure, and self-righteous. If he did blow you off and it wasn't just your eternal middle school mindset, I'm going to give him credit for sniffing out a back-stabbing social climber and keeping his distance.

Meow!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
You sound like a dud--entitled, insecure, and self-righteous. If he did blow you off and it wasn't just your eternal middle school mindset, I'm going to give him credit for sniffing out a back-stabbing social climber and keeping his distance.

Hilarious. Off your medication? Working out some personal rage? Bitter much? I see several therapists down the road...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
You sound like a dud--entitled, insecure, and self-righteous. If he did blow you off and it wasn't just your eternal middle school mindset, I'm going to give him credit for sniffing out a back-stabbing social climber and keeping his distance.

Hilarious. Off your medication? Working out some personal rage? Bitter much? I see several therapists down the road...

What's sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose, if we are going with animal references (and yes, the transposition is intentIonal). Apparently if one critiques OP's obvious shortcomings it is a sign of mental ilness. She, on the other hand, is just a lonely crusader trying to right perceived social slights in the school lobby (towards herself, not children) via the courageous mechanism of anonymous posts. LOL. What a hypocrite!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. For the record, we are among the less connected ones. And our interest is not in hanging around the school lobby, expecting the principal/faculty/staff to fawn over us. Nearly the opposite is true. Our experience has neverthless been at least mildly disconcerting. If the Principal is interested in seeing the less connected feel more comfortable, he doesn;t seem to be acting on this thought -- at least in our experience and that of a few other less connected families we know and have discussed this with.

All of this is not to take away from the school or his record as an educator. All highly appreciated.

You "highly" appreciate him so much that you call him "odd" and "unprofessional" in your original post? ummm..... okay. When you don't appreciate someone, what tack do you take?

Appreciate his record an an educator. Don't appreciate his interpersonal skills. Would you like me to keep repeating this? Is it all black or white?

You sound like a dud--entitled, insecure, and self-righteous. If he did blow you off and it wasn't just your eternal middle school mindset, I'm going to give him credit for sniffing out a back-stabbing social climber and keeping his distance.

From the two responses to your comments here, I'd say you hit a nerve . . . the right one! Good call.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Everyone from the school community seems to agrees on is these points. The Head of the Sidwell LS is an excellent educator/administrator but his personal skills in dealing with parents are not his strong suit. That said, the children love him. Let's remember he is there for our kids and the to run the school not for us parents. I don't have a child at the Sidwell, but respect the school and it sounds like this man is doing a fine job internally.

Time to let it go and move on.

No. Stop telling people what to do. If he ignores certain parents, that is inexcusable for someone in his position. Parents have every right to gripe about it, especially if they are paying for it.

If he (or you) doesn't like to read about it, he needs to change his ways. ASAP. And if he does (as he should), he should thank this forum.

I feel for you with your obsessive-compulsive posting and need to "gripe about it." Therapy might help you, as well as appropriate medications such as Zoloft, Welbutrin, etc.

[Anonymous]

I am retiring from the thread. I still think it is a crummy thing to do to use a board like this to focus on any one identifiable individual, when they cannot defend themselves against anonymous shots. Not everyone ascribes to this philosophy, clearly. I do think there's been enough stories in the media re: cyberbullying, misuse of Facebook, and older sites like "Juicy Campus" and their harm that it is worth reflection.

Peace, out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am retiring from the thread. I still think it is a crummy thing to do to use a board like this to focus on any one identifiable individual, when they cannot defend themselves against anonymous shots. Not everyone ascribes to this philosophy, clearly. I do think there's been enough stories in the media re: cyberbullying, misuse of Facebook, and older sites like "Juicy Campus" and their harm that it is worth reflection.

Peace, out.

I totally agree with your thoughts about this thread. There'll probably be some "come back at you" comments, but you're right. It's rather shameful, really. Hopefully, this educator's good qualities and professional way of doing his job will disprove the cowardly, anonymous posts here. Take care.

[Anonymous]

As a new comer to DCUM and one with no dog in this race (i.e., not a Sidwell Parent), I am surprised by the tone of the comments here. Can we tone it down please?

PS. It rather sounds like the last few comments have all been posted by the same angry 16.56 poster.